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The idea that artificial intelligence will someday be able to understand and even generate narratives has inspired and motivated researchers for years. A question inextricably bound to both lines of

Credit: Shutterstock Doctors are often deluged by signals from charts, test results, and other metrics to keep track of. It can be difficult to integrate and monitor all of these

Credit: Shutterstock Forget the Turing test. Computing pioneer Alan Turing’s most pertinent thoughts on machine intelligence come from a neglected paragraph of the same paper that first proposed his famous

If you tell a robot secrets, you might want to make sure it can forget them too. Credit: ibmphoto24/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND We all know what it’s like to forget something.

Increasingly, decisions and actions affecting people’s lives are determined by automated systems processing personal data. Excitement about these systems has been accompanied by serious concerns about their opacity and threats they

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem devised a method enabling computers to mine databases of patents, inventions and research papers, identifying ideas that can be

Cornell researchers using AI to Develop Cultural Anthropology Tools. Credit: Cornell University Each day billions of photographs are uploaded to photo-sharing services and social media platforms, and Cornell computer science

There are nearly 2 million youth who spend at least one night homeless each year in the United States. An estimated 7 percent of homeless youth are likely to be

A virtual skeleton that has learned to walk from scratch, using only a machine-learning algorithm submitted to the “Learning to Run” competition. Credit: crowdAI.org At this moment, computer-generated skeletons are

Algorithms developed for a contest held by Caltech and Cornell Tech can identify species that appear in photos. Credit: Clockwise from top left-Jana Ohrner, Thomas Barbin, Clayton Orsay, Caltech, Steve

WordNet is a lexical database for the English language. It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short definitions and usage examples, and records a number of

‘Celebrity’ Twitter accounts – those with more than 10 million followers – display more bot-like behaviour than users with fewer followers, according to new research. The researchers, from the University

Credit: Disney Research Disney Research has developed a method for designing cable-driven mechanisms that help artists and hobbyists give physical form and motion to animated characters. Assemblies of cables and

Credit: Disney Research The way a videogame character jumps, kicks, walks, runs or even breathes is determined by a loop of frames known as a motion cycle. Also critical for

Disney Research has developed a new method to improve the rendering of high-quality images from 3-D models by drastically reducing the noise, or discolored pixels, contained in the animated images,